What would happen if you...?

Question

drilled all the way through the Earth, then got inside an indestructible pod and fell into the hole?

Answer 1

You would come to a stop at the center of the earth where the vector force of gravity at all angles cancel each other out. Possibly, your acceleration would drive you to the other side several times but your momentum would wear down like a pendulum until you came to a stop at the center.

Answer 2

First answer is not correct. Ignoring air resistance, and the fact that no material is in fact capable of withstanding the pressure at the center of the earth, your capsule would fall with increasing speed toward the center, reaching a maximum speed there and continuing up to the surface on the other side, arriving there about 45 minutes after the trip began. If not checked there, it would then start a return trip, arriving at the original point after another 45 minutes. It is not a coincidence that this time equals the time for a low orbit satellite to circle the earth.

Answer 3

it depends? if you drilled through from pole to pole then you would fall until you almost came out the other side then you would fall back just like if you would tie something at the end of a string and the string to the ceiling then lifted it up and let it go it would just swing back and forth swinging less and less until it stopped at the bottom, but...! if you drilled from one side of the equator to the other and you fell while the moon was on the opposite side during an eclipse then the gravity of the moon and sun might be strong enough to pull you out the other side and you might fall all the way to the moon! [if there was no air Resistance] if you did this on the moon you could fall all the way to the earth if the sun was behind the earth since there is no air on the moon!

Answer 4

first, you'd poop all over yourself as you fell.

Then you'd fall past the center of the earth then be pulled back up and then pass it again, but a little less this time and back and forth until after a few, you'd stay in the center.

then you'd melt.

actually drilling a hole would cause the earths molten core to shoot out like a volcano (up and down) and pour out all over the people and cities near the hole. The core would also begin to cool very quickly

you'd destroy the liquid core which generates our magnetic field, once the field was gone, the solar winds would blow away our atmosphere, allowing solar radiation (in the light) to boil our skin and extreme cold (in the dard) to freeze us.

you'd kill us all.

Answer 5

You would fall almost all the way through and then fall back again. Air resistance and magnetic losses would slow you down every pass until you would eventually come to rest at the Earths centre of gravity.

Answer 6

You would yo yo around the centre of the earth for while and finally just float at the centre where there is zero gravity.

Answer 7

You'd come out from the other end of the hole!

Answer 8

Well I say You would keep falling until you land on a rock.

Answer 9

You would get stuck at the center.

Answer 10

are you in China?